Improvement in shoes



EDWIN c. BUNT, on NEW Yon-K, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHOES, am.

Specilication forinirg part cf Letters Patent No. 146,801, dated January :27, 1574 application iled November 24, 1873.

To all whom it only concern.:

Be it known that I, EDWIN C. B Uur, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Construction of the Soles oi' Shoes; and I do hereby declare th at the folloWin g is a full, clear, andexaet description of the saine, reference being had to the accompanying1 drawing forming a part of this specification.

The invention relates to a novel inode of eonstructing and eonjoiningl the upper, inner, and outer soles of a boot or shoe, as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

Figure l is a plan view of top of channeled outsole; Fig. 2, a cross-section of the saine, and Fig. 3 a top View of the middle sole of a double-soled boot or shoe.

A represents an outer sole, having tl le chair nel a located at a short distance from the ed ge, and beveled upwardly to the top of middle o', 'which has the full thickness of ordinary soles. When the soles are to be united to the upper,

I ain thus enabled to sink the upper B in the channel u of outsole A, and cause the insole C to overlap said channel, thereby doing,` away With the usual projection of upper and of insole, While the middle or Wearing part of outsole is preserved in its full thickness. Oi course by this construction the upper B is very eiectually protected, and rendered more durable, while a closer joint is formed for the exclusion of Water and dust.

-Ilaving thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- A boot or shoe having outer sole A of full thickness, except in channel a., an upper sunk in said channel, and an insole overlapping' the i channel, as and for the purpose described.

rlhe above specification of my invention signed by me this 20th of November, 1873.

EDWIN C. BUR'I.

litnesses: r

T. B. Mosnnn, l. nneivrcn. 

